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  1a. Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

  2. A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling, and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you.

  3. A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

  4. A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

  5. A lie never lives to be old.

  6. A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.

  7. A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.

  8. All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and false hood passing from words into things.

  9. And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betrays In deepest consequence.

 10. And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but The truth in masquerade.

 11. Be intent on his intentions.

 12. Before they can act wickedly they must lie, and once they begin to lie they will act wickedly with unconcern.

 13. Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.

 14. Cunning has effect from the credulity of others.

 15. Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

 16. Cunning is the natural and universal defense of the weak against the violence of the strong.

 17. Cunning leads to knavery. - It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. - Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.

 18. Cunning to wisdom is as an ape to man.

 19. Cunning...is but the low mimic of wisdom.

 20. Deadly poisons are concealed under sweet honey.

 21. Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society.

 22. Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.

 23. Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.

 24. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

 25. Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.

 26. Do not talk about disgrace from a thing being known, when disgrace is, that the thing should exist.

 27. Don't trust that conventional idea.

 28. Falsehood is cowardice, - truth is courage.

 29. Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fastly misled us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no timepieces so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

 30. Falsehood is susceptible of an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

 31. Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves. You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.

 32. For he who speaks untruth withers like a tree to the roots.

 33. For one who has been honored, dishonor is worse than death.

 34. For whoever contemplates a crime is guilty of the deed.

 35. Foxes are so cunning Because they are not strong.

 36. Fraud and falsehood only dread examination.

 37. Half the truth is often a great lie.

 38. Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.

 39. He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

 40. He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he undertakes; for he must invent twenty more to maintainthat one.

 41. His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.

 42. How can we expect another to keep our secret if we cannot keep it ourselves.

 43. I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences you are to tell the truth.

 44. I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face.

 45. If one is plotting evil, He always uses pleasant words.

 46. If people become accustomed to lying, they will uncon-sciously commit every possible wrong deed.

 47. If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty.

 48. If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt; if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry; if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius.

 49. In the heart, in the speech, and in the conduct of the magnanimous there is one and the same thing.

 50. In the mind of the wicked there is one thing; in their discourse another; their conduct is another.

 51. Is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin? It is the just decree of Heaven that a traitor never sees his danger till his ruin is at hand.

 52. It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding it out.

 53. It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

 54. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive.

 55. Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

 56. Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men.

 57. Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

 58. Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and unless you possess the key to their motives you may at any moment be forced to take their chestnuts out of the fire to the damage of your own fingers.

 59. Mary, I believed thee true, And I was blest in thus believing; But now I mourn that ever I knew A girl so fair and so deceiving.

 60. Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.

 61. No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.

 62. No one can disgrace us but ourselves.

 63. No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted.

 64. Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth.

 65. O fool, fool! the pains which thou takest to hide what thou art, are far more than would make thee what thou wouldst seem; and the children of wisdom shall mock at thy cunning when, in the midst of security, thy disguise is stripped off, and the finger of derision shall point thee to scorn.

 66. O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

 67. Oh, colder than the wind that freezes Founts, that but now in sunshine play'd, Is that congealing pang which seizes The trusting bosom, when betray'd.

 68. One crime is concealed by the commission of another.

 69. One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

 70. Round numbers are always false.

 71. Shame greatly hurts or greatly helps mankind.

 72. Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

 73. Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

 74. Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

 75. So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

 76. Some have learnt many Tricks of sly Evasion, Instead of Truth they use Equivocation, And eke it out with mental Reservation, Which is to good Men an Abomination.

 77. Spies are of no use nowadays.

 78. The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

 79. The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

 80. The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.

 81. The fox puts off all with a jest.

 82. The gain of lying is, not to be trusted by any, nor to be believed when we speak the truth.

 83. The heart of the hypocrite is hid in his breast; he masketh his words in the semblance of truth, while the business of his life is only to deceive.

 84. The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

 85. The newspapers do their work instead.

 86. The very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrew boast of it.

 87. The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

 88. Their profession is over.

 89. There is no lie that many men will not believe; there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.

 90. They trifle with the best parts of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.

 91. Though those who are betrayed do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe.

 92. Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.

 93. Thy secret is thy prisoner if thou keepest it; thou art its prisoner if thou divulgest it.

 94. To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber; for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain.

 95. Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.

 96. Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

 97. Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader.

 98. Trickery and treachery are the practices of fools that have not wits enough to be honest.

 99. Trust not in him that seems a saint.

100. Truth invites it.

101. Truth is the safest lie.

102. Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning.

103. We (Communist Party) must be ready to employ trickery, deceit, law-breaking, withholding and concealing truth.

104. We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

105. We can and must write in the language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, scorn, and the like, toward those who disagree with us.

106. We should do by our cunning as we do by our courage, always have it ready to defend ourselves, never to offend others.

107. We take cunning for a sinister or crooked wisdom.

108. We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love.

109. Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.

110. When a hunter sees the game, He sings a sweet song to lure it.

111. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish.

112. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love.

113. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

114. Where trust is greatest, there treason is in its most horrid shape.

115. White lies are but the ushers to black ones.

116. Who is not sure of his memory should not attempt lying.

117. You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.

118. You have only to keep still and it will die of itself.